Great job! Thanks. I'll test it later and commit it to the CVS repository.

BTW: FUDforum still supports both PHP4 and 5 (I know it's time to drop PHP4, but that will probably only happen in the FUDforum 3.x range). To support both we should add an if-check around the "iconv_mime_encode" function.

Unfortunetly, in commited version is my first diff which is buggy.
There is posbility of double decode for subject.
Subject is decoded by decode_header_value.
Here is small patch for version 1.80 of nntp.inc.

The results of this patch look odd now that they're incorporated into FUDforum 2.8.1 for English (utf-8). When posted to a newsgroup, the subject line starts with a colon, followed by a space, followed by the subject line.

I deleted the added iconv_mime_encode code in the nntp.inc file, putting the code back as it was for earlier versions of FUDforum. The subject line now looks like it should, but is there a correct way to fix this for the English speakers?